Does It Matter? (Butter)
Decorating By madhousewife Updated 13 Mar 2009 , 5:25pm by AKA_cupcakeshoppe
I'm sure it makes a difference depending on the recipe.
But I just wanted to throw in that I never use salt in anything sweet. I ALWAYS omit it in any recipe that I use. Started omitting it 30 years ago. Never noticed a difference. Never missed it. So I never use it. (First husband had extremely high blood pressure, so I was removing salt from EVERYTHING possible!)
I figure I don't salt a brownie when I eat it ... I'm not salting it before I bake it.
My understanding is that UNsalted butter will be fresher. Reasoning is that salt is a preservative and when it's not added it does not keep as long.
Hi, I never liked unsalted butter. Even if the recipe calls for unsalted butter, I use salted butter. And always make my buttercream with salted butter! Love it!
I used unsalted butter once and meant to add salt, but forgot. It was the most awful icing I've ever tasted. I always use salted. I've seen the recipe where you mix the two and I intend to use it. The addition of salt helps cut down on the sweetness and give you a real flavorful buttercream. I would try it and play with it different ways because, honestly, everyone has different tastes.
I always buy unsalted butter for my smbc, merely because I like to be the one to control the amount of salt that goes into my recipes. Salt is important because it will help to make your flavors POP! Of course using too much provides a rather unappealing taste! On the rare occasion I flub up and accidentally purchase salted butter, and in that case I just remember not to add the salt to the recipe since it is already in the butter.
I use unsalted butter and manually add salt back in. IMO the salt makes the cake or icing richer and brings out the taste of vanilla and chocolate.
Interesting! Pretty good mix of answers. hehe I am using the indydebis buttercream recipe if that makes a difference.
Thank you for all the replies so far!
Question? Does salt take out some of the sweetness of the icing?
No, it doesn't. It gives a nice balance to the buttercream. I have tried making buttercream with unsalted butter and it was too sweet for me.
And I totaly agree with No-goodlazybum! And some of my customers ask how I get my cake really moist, and I think salted butter helps that as well.
When I make SMBC i make sure I use unsalted butter (unless it's chocolate and in that case the chocolate will overpower the salt IME)
for baking I always margarine
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